| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| continued | (adjective) without stop or interruption | - |
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| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| continuo | (noun) a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | Synonyms: basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
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| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| continuously | (adverb) at every point | - |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| continuum | (noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts | - |
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| conundrum | (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, enigma, riddle |
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| conurbation | (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: sprawl, urban sprawl |
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| cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
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| cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
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| (noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| denude | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, strip |
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| denuded | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denudate |
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| denumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, enumerable, numerable |
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| denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| deoxynucleotide | (noun) Any nucleotide that contains a deoxy sugar. | - |
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| diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| discontinue | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, stop |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) come to or be at an end | - |
| discontinued | (adjective) stopped permanently or temporarily | - |
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| discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| dominus | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominie |
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| donut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: doughnut, sinker |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| duodenum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
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| earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
| echinus | (noun) ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column | - |
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| endonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes | - |
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| ennui | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, tedium |
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| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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| enumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, numerable |
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| enumerate | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: itemise, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, number, numerate |
| enumeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: numbering |
| enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| enunciation | (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: diction |
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| enured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: hardened, inured |
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| enuresis | (noun) inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination | Synonyms: urinary incontinence |
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| eriogonum | (noun) any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers | - |
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| eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| exonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that releases one nucleotide at a time (serially) beginning at one of a nucleic acid | - |
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| extenuate | (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: mitigate, palliate |
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| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
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| extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
| fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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| (noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
| galbanum | (noun) a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida | Synonyms: gum albanum |
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| gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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| genu | (noun) hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella | Synonyms: articulatio genus, human knee, knee, knee joint |
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| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| genuflection | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflexion |
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| genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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| genuine | (adjective) not fake or counterfeit | Synonyms: echt |
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| (adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: true, unfeigned |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, literal, real |
| genuinely | (adverb) in accordance with truth or fact or reality | Synonyms: really, truly |
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| (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: authentically |
| genuineness | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, legitimacy |
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| (noun) the state of being genuine | - |
| genus | (noun) a general kind of something | - |
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| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species | - |
| gerenuk | (noun) slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns | Synonyms: Litocranius walleri |
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| gnu | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: wildebeest |
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| granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| granulated | (adjective) made grainy or formed into granules | - |
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| granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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| (noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
| granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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| granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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| granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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| granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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| granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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| granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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| granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
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| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| grownup | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown |
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| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
| haemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: hemoglobinuria |
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| hanuman | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| hemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: haemoglobinuria |
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| hypercalcinuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalciuria |
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| hypertonus | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonicity |
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